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Peer reviewedKuhl, Patricia K.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Science, 1982
Indicates that 18- to 20-month-old infants can detect the correspondence between auditorially and visually perceived speech; that is, they manifest some of the components related to lip-reading phenomena in adults. This demonstration of the bimodal perception of speech in infancy has important implications for social, cognitive, and linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Quasthoff, Uta M. – 1983
Discourse and conversational analysis methods were used in a qualitative reconstruction of one aspect of the regularities in the way 61 children "do" personal reference. Of particular interest was the development of two reference forms: minimization--preference for simple (one word) forms, or recipient design--reference forms indicating…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedVion, Monique; Colas, Annie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
French-speaking children and adults heard silent comic-strip stories that differed by frame display mode, explicitness of the links between depicted events, and whether the topic changed on the last frame. Subjects' use of referents for the last frame indicated that manipulation of context was a good means of assessing speakers' acquisition of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedDurand, C. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1997
Summarizes progressions between 2 and 6 years of age in children's power of concentration, ability to express ideas, build logical relationships, structure spoken words, and play with the semantic, phonetic, syntactical, and morphological aspects of oral language. Notes that the progression depends on the educator's interaction with the child.…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education
Palmer, Wolf Dennie; And Others – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Presents four articles in the context of workshop discussions on characteristics of environments that promote language development: (1) "Children's Conversations: Why are They Important?"; (2) "Ways of Talking: Respecting Differences"; (3) Paul's Talk: Teachers and Parents Look at a Child's Language"; and (4) "In the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Delayed Speech
Ice, Marie – 1986
To determine the relationship between oral and written language conventions at the macro and micro levels, a study analyzed various elements of stories generated by children. Subjects, nine above average readers between grades 4 and 9, were asked to tell a story and then to write a story. Sources of stories, overall plot organization, and number…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
